Is £28,000 too high for a giraffe on the internet?

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GORILLAS, rare big cats or other endangered wild animals are on sale illegally on the internet. In just one week, investigators found 146 live primates offered for sale on the web, with nearly 9,000 wildlife products such as elephant tusks. Most of these products, including the tusks, come from protected species, and the trade in some animals — chimpanzees captured in the wild, for example — is outlawed internationally.

Research by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) reveals an alarming trade in wildlife that encourages poaching and threatens rare creatures with extinction. It says that internet trading has provided